Random Track of the Day
Sunday, August 7 2011
Finally, a break! Okay, so in fairness this album was already reviewed by me some time ago, but this is one of the better tracks from it, and if I can allow an ambient instrumental or a classical concerto, I can certainly not disqualify this due to its already having been featured!
Taken from the album “Original sin”, released in 1989, this is Pandora's Box, which was basically a project put together by Jim Steinman, of Meat Loaf fame. Some of the tracks later surfaced on El Meat's albums, notably “Good girls go to Heaven (Bad girls go everywhere)", “It's all coming back to me now” and “It just won't quit.” Of course, the second track mentioned there was also covered by Canada's answer to a year-long headache, Celine Dion.
This track however was not covered by anyone, and is a Steinman original. Surprisingly, as detailed in my review of the album, the project was a flop and the album failed to gain any sort of chart success, with the result that it stands as the only Pandora's Box material.
The lyric to “Safe sex” is really quite clever, and there's some lovely piano in the song. It's a ballad, sung by Gina Taylor, who was one of the multi-vocalists on “Original sin”.
Safe sex--- Pandora's Box --- from “Original sin” on Virgin
And that about wraps it up for the first week of “Random Track of the Day”. One thing you can certainly not deny, as that's that it has been random. We've had a country ballad, a classical concerto, an ambient instrumental, and a song about suicide bombers. Hey, if that's not eclectic, then Homer Simpson is a genius!
Who knows what next week will bring? One thing is for sure: I have no clue, but whatever the die rolls for me, that's what I'll post. What --- you think I
enjoy making YouTube videos for songs no-one has ever heard, ever will hear or wants to hear?
Man, I'm just the conduit through which the Fates work their magic. Mine is not to reason why, mine is just to roll that die!
See ya some other time!